MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. ^5$ 



pear to be fiightly pubefctnt, from four to eight 

 in each fpike. 

 The fhortnefs of the compound fpike, the fhape 

 and colour ot the male fpike, and the fmallnefs 

 of the round female ones, willfcrveto diilincruifh 

 this fpecies from the C. montana, to which it is 

 nearly allied. 



**** Spicis fesu difdnclh •, fmineU pedimidalis, 



ittraia iv. CAREX fpicis androgynis terminalibus peduncur 

 latis J fiorentibus eredis, frudiferis pendulis. 

 Sp.pi. 1386. ^Scheuchz.gram. 481. ;. ;i./. i, 2, 

 bona, Oed. Dan. t. 158.) 



Black Carex, AngUs. 



Upon the highland mountains frequent, as upon 

 Bentejkerny, Mal-ghyrd}\ Mal-nan-tarmonach^ &c. 

 mountains in Breadalba?ie^ %. VII. VIII. 



The flalks are about a foot high, triangular : the 

 leaves i-6th of an inch broad, and fliarp to the 

 touch : the fpikes are dark, fufcous, almoft 

 black, of a thick oval form, all of fimilar ap- 

 pearance, half an inch long, and grow at the 

 top of the (talk, on fhort peduncles near to each 

 other \ the lowermoft fubcended by a foliaceous 

 hratlea, as high as the top of the compound 

 fpike: the fcales are almofl black, with a red- 

 difh carina : the Jlamina are two, with yellow 

 anthera : the flyles three, of a dark purple co- 

 lour : the capfules green and ereft at the time of 

 florefcence, but afterwards yellow, and pendu- 

 lous ; 



